WASHINGTON (OfficialWire) — Republican Sen. John McCain, a sharp critic of Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary, said Monday he will not support a filibuster of President Barack Obama’s pick, even though he declined to say whether he intends to vote for confirmation.
“I do not believe a filibuster is appropriate and I would oppose such a move,” McCain told reporters Monday, two days after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell raised the possibility of forcing a showdown vote.
In the fiercest exchange of Hagel’s confirmation hearing last week, McCain questioned the nominee about the Iraq war and whether he was right or wrong in opposing an additional 30,000 U.S. troops in 2007. The Arizona senator said he still has questions on the nomination and “was not happy with his (Hagel’s) failure to answer a really simple question.”
But McCain insisted he would not support use of the filibuster, a procedural tactic which can derail a confirmation vote and which can be stopped only by the votes of 60 of the 100 senators.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Donna Cassata.
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It makes no difference who Obama appoints or nominates they WILL be approved. No one dare go up against Obama’s big money, string pulling puppetmasters. All he does is follow orders. I am willing to bet when they are finished with him he will somehow be eliminated.
These hearings are for our entertainment and for the Senate’s amusement, the reality is that Hagel will become the next Secretary of Defense, and as far as I am concerned Senator John Mccain is simply basking as he always does in the limelight of media attention.
If anyone wants to know whom they should thank about the unconstitutional law namely the NDAA, thanks should be expressed to Senator McCain and Senator Levine, they co-authored the unconstitutional law that allows a president to imprison anyone that they feel is a threat to America, no trial, n hearing no nothing, what a great law.
One would think that for someone that was imprisoned against their will like Senator John McCain was in Vietnam, that he would be the last person to introduce such a Bill, but guess what, he was and he did, how nuts is that?
Why even bother to ask him any questions if you’re not going to do something about it… You may as well just confirm him and show him his new office…cuz all those Q and A…have no meaning whatsoever..